alt Hacker NewsI find it kind of hilarious that a 7 billion parameter AI model is necessary to automate the clicking of webpages. I mean, how broken is the software stack if we can't script things? We jumped the shark, clearly.
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msp26 • today at 5:34 PM
Because its not a software issue, it's a human social cooperation issue.
Companies don't want to support useful APIs for interoperability so its just easier to have an LLM bruteforce problems using the same interface that humans use.
igleria • today at 4:38 PM
half of GDP generated by all software and finance companies (ai and non ai) are artificial moats based in overengineering for the sake of selling something at a higher price than it would be if it was simpler.
Yesterday I watched a video showing off 'My New Agent Coding Workflow'. The beginning involved prompting the IDE with a URL to download some additional prompt text files. I really didn't understand why you wouldn't just download the files. Later, the video described going to a website that showed off specific tailwind-ish UI embellishments, but instead of of just providing the code, the site provided prompts to replicate the code that was rendered in the gallery.
I felt like the author getting a cut of viewer token sales.